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By: shelterrific » Blog Archive » contest winner! the best mess confession

shelterrific » Blog Archive » contest winner! the best mess confession — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:01:06 +0000

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By: Jessica

Jessica — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:35:31 +0000

I need this dustbuster! My mom is coming up to visit this weekend and I haven’t cleaned because my current dustbuster is getting on in years and doesn’t have adequate suction anymore.

By: Brooke

Brooke — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:29:12 +0000

Everything hiding behind me basement door. I keep that thing shut for a reason. It is one of those creepy old basements and so I have just completely let it get creepier because I never had the balls to clean it. I don’t even want to know the number of spiders down there!

By: Shari

Shari — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:58:13 +0000

This isn’t a particularly appalling story, just sad. I live in a home with lovely red oak floors. Lovely, and perhaps even a good choice for cleaning up after an 80lb dog and a cranky, always-shedding 19 year old cat.

Both animals passed away last week; the dog on Thursday night from a particularly brutal cancer, and the cat on Friday morning from kidney disease. These two were our children. As you can imagine, we are devastated.

Where are we now? Mounds of animal hair, all over said red oak floor. In every corner. Along the baseboards. Under the furniture. Floating around wildly. The central vac isn’t cutting it. I need something powerful, portable, and flexible to clean up the mess, and pay better tribute to my kids.

By: kim

kim — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:58:14 +0000

My house is so bad I dont let people in!! It smells and I have fruitflies over things I can’t even see. I have major depression and my house represents what I feel like inside, which is a sin because I have 3 kids living in this dump with me my eldest son doesn’t even come to visit it’s gross. I’m embarrassed beyond belief and when I do get the uummph to pick up I get pissed that I have let it get so bad!! I need more than a hand held vac I need a bulldozer!! I just felt like venting I guess.

By: Jenn

Jenn — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:18:19 +0000

All I have to say is here’s who lives in my house:
3 boys
3 dogs
5 birds
a Guinea pig

Getting a dustbuster will make my life easier & my house cleaner !!

By: sciencegeek

sciencegeek — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:40:26 +0000

I apologize for the gross, but I blame you for asking the question.

I have psoriasis. This means that I have giant dandruff coming off my arms and legs. If I don’t sweep every day, the skin flakes cover the floors like a light spatter of snow. I have to shake out the sheets daily, sweep off the couch every time I sit on it and just constantly keep brushing off everything.

Right now it isn’t so bad but during the winter, imagine dry skin and increase it by three or four orders of magnitude and then use those same orders of magnitude to imagine the size of the skin flakes.

The only way my life could be ashier is if I lived under an active volcano.

I’m fighting a losing battle.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:10:43 +0000

I detest cleaning the shower. I also have been known to throw away cups/bowls/pans that have mold that looks like it might fight back. I never, ever, ever clean under things. I mean, I clean my underthings, but not underneath things.

By: Nutmegg

Nutmegg — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:59:12 +0000

My messes, hmm, let me count them…whatever they may be, nothing is so heinous as the dust bunny ranch I am running. They are not called bunnies because they are cute and fluffy. They are called bunnies because they breed like rabbits!

When we lived in LA, we thought it was because the air is so bad down there (plus our cats). We moved to Northern California and thought it was because our house had many large gaps in the windows and the floors (plus our cats). We have moved to a house with no gaps, banished the cats outside, and STILL, I have to get the DustBuster out SEVERAL time each day and do combat with the bunnies.

Needless to say, the fantastic DustBuster we got for our wedding 8 years ago is getting wheezy, Top the bunnies off with two cheerio-strewing kids, and we have a seriously dire situation. PLEASE HELP ME! IF MINE DIES BEFORE A NEW ONE IS LOCATED, I WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE!!

Tomorrow’s lead story “Crazed mother found dead in really dusty house. It appeared half her face was gnawed off by a seemingly out-of-control pack of wild dust bunnies, two of which looked suspiciously large…”